Soft, chewable and orally dissolvable and/or disintegrable products

A method of making a soft, chewable and orally-dissolvable and/or -disintegrable product comprising:

• dispersing tobacco powder in water to form a suspension;
• adding at least one enzyme in an amount of up to about 5 wt % by weight of the tobacco powder to the suspension;
• storing the suspension at a temperature above about 35° C. for about 24 hours to about 60 hours to form enzyme treated tobacco;
• dissolving a biopolymer and a sugar in water to form a solution;
• adding the enzyme treated tobacco to the solution;
• stirring the solution to form a suspension;
• gelling the suspension to form a gel;
• drying the gel to form a dried gel;
• and
• portioning the dried gel to form a pre-portioned, soft, chewable and orally-dissolvable and/or -disintegrable product.